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  1. Brooksy86

    Wild Duck becoming tame?

    Aw thanks for the advice guys, kinda keeping her at arms length now, but yesterday another hithero unknown female showed up and now they're both quite content just following one another around. If she somehow has ducklings again, how is best to avoid death from above via one of the falcons...
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    Wild Duck becoming tame?

    Sorry for the late response. She's a introduced Mallard, same as those from back home (UK). No biologists, I guess 'reserve' is bit of a misnomer, it's essentially a tiny island that's linked to the mainland via a causeway. We focus predominantly on keeping the kiwi safe, the ducks don't...
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    Wild Duck becoming tame?

    I used to frequent these forums a while back when I owned chickens, but it's been some time since I posted. Apologies for that, but you guys were incredibly helpful before so I'm hoping you'd be able to help me again. I'm currently working up in the Northland in New Zealand on a kiwi reserve...
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    Child Attack! (Wasn't sure to put this here or under 'Predators and Pests')

    No idea on the kids age, but I used to look after a lot of my friends kids and I'd say he is about 4-5. Thankfully the neighbours are relocating soon, but in the end of the day it was my fault, I have high fences but I left a gate pen, I let him in (and his coming in reminded me that my...
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    Child Attack! (Wasn't sure to put this here or under 'Predators and Pests')

    They seem fine now, one in particular (who seems to be bit of a lone wolf) has become my garden buddy, she'll happily follow me about and coo at me whenever I'm close. I was playing with power tools the other day and she didn't seem bothered at all (the rest seemed pretty happy staying as far...
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    Child Attack! (Wasn't sure to put this here or under 'Predators and Pests')

    My four new ex battery ISA's have just started to come out their coop more and explore the garden, some even come over when I have mealworms (but still don't like me touching them just yet, which is fine) but this evening I caught the neighbours kid in the garden holding one of the chickens by...
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    May have spooked my new girls.

    Yep, I had the silkies first, and I'll be honest, I don't particularly like them. Both are timid but one will peck viciously at your hands if you try and change their food/water, when they rarely decide to free-range they'll hide themselves away and will scream bloody murder if you attempt to...
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    May have spooked my new girls.

    Today they were much better, I actually moved their entire home a fair way across the garden so I think I'll have to re-acclimatize them to their new surroundings again but two of the hens are so inquisitive its incredible, will eat from my hand, one tried climbing up my leg and both will...
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    May have spooked my new girls.

    Thank you guys, yeah, I think I gave them bit of a sensory overload. Seeing it in writing made it sink in a little more, spend the following hours afterwards just talking to them through their new home, after a while they stopped being all cooped up in the corner and seemed to relax and eat...
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    May have spooked my new girls.

    *bloody cats on the keyboard* Anyway, they seemed happy enough to relax in my arms a while before I let them free-range whilst I worked in the garden,Ibuilt them a new coop from a load of scrap wood I collected, and they seemingly spend the day enjoying the sun but generally huddled up under...
  11. Brooksy86

    May have spooked my new girls.

    Yesterday I picked up four ISA brown hens, all of them are ex battery, after I lost almost all my flock recently. After collecting them they seemed fearless, they happily had a quick bit of free-ranging before bed and I put them in the hutch. This morning they were still pretty docile, a little...
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    Probably not enough photographs, but can you lovely lot confirm the gender of this hellbeast Silkie?

    I've honestly no idea, it was donated to me :/
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    Probably not enough photographs, but can you lovely lot confirm the gender of this hellbeast Silkie?

    Sorry the photographs aren't clearer, this particular bugger screams bloody murder whenever I hold it and runs like the ****** wind if I come anywhere near them. I just noticed today that my two silkies seem to have some pretty subtle differences in posture, behaviour and features, probably...
  14. Brooksy86

    Chicken burrowing head into other chickens backside?

    Could exlain it, maybe the silkie is a lot younger than I thought and both are utterly petrified of me.
  15. Brooksy86

    A Heartbroken Thank You.

    The silkie I started off with was a present, I think my friend was thinking more about the aesthetics than their general demeanor when she got her though, the second was again gifted to me as they both seemed lonely and it seemed a good idea but I find them to be almost like cats in a weird way...
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    A Heartbroken Thank You.

    Thank you for your advice, I am based in Australia at the moment (but I'm a Brit), I'm not really sure about getting anymore chickens at the moment as they're all technically not mine. Once I move, which could happen in a few months, they stay here. When I first got here they were being just a...
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    Chicken burrowing head into other chickens backside?

    I have two silkies, I'm honestly unsure of their ages, but I noticed the slightly smaller of the two keeps on burrowing/nuzzling her head into the others rear/back section. They both seem happy enough with this ritual, but what's this all about? And sorry if this is a stupid question, I am still...
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    A Heartbroken Thank You.

    Thanks guys for the responses, means a lot to me. I looked and I looked for the two others, I had hopes as they were all of different colours and whilst there was feathers of both my white (Lily) and red bird (Gloria) by the bucket-load, the black one (Morgan Free-Range) only had a smattering...
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    A Heartbroken Thank You.

    I moved into my current shared house about a month and a half ago, when they told me they had three chickens I actually made a joke about leaving a trail of crumbs to a waiting oven (I am a chef after-all) and was pretty nonchalant about their existence. But then I struggled to find work as...
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